Rosie Devault Sues Dollar General for Age Discrimination in Tennessee

Rosie Devault filed a complaint against Dollar General Corporation in Montgomery County Chancery Court on March 3, 2026, initiating case MCCHCVMG260000002, recorded as Employment Discrimination - Age Discrimination. The filing names Devault as plaintiff and Dollar General Corporation as defendant in the Tennessee Chancery Court docket for Montgomery County.

The materials available do not include the full text of Devault’s complaint, and the public listings supplied with the docket entry contain no factual allegations, dates of alleged conduct, or counsel identified for Devault. The case type on the docket is limited to Employment Discrimination - Age Discrimination, and the complaint itself must be pulled from the Montgomery County Chancery Court clerk to read the specific claims and requested relief.

The Devault filing arrives amid separate age-bias litigation involving Dollar General operating entities. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed an age-discrimination suit in U.S. District Court in Muskogee, Oklahoma against Dolgencorp LLC, the Dollar General stores operator, alleging that a regional director harassed district managers in their 50s and older by calling them “grumpy old men,” saying he was building a “millennial team,” and insisting the stores needed “young blood” in the workforce. The EEOC alleged the director threatened older managers to keep up with the “millennial team” or face termination, and that after an internal complaint the company’s investigation “did not take effective measures to stop the regional director’s conduct,” leading to two district managers who reported the conduct being fired and another being forced to quit, with the EEOC charging violations of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act.

Dollar General’s corporate communications response in the matter has been limited: a spokeswoman said, “the company does not comment on pending litigation.” The Dolgencorp organization previously paid $6 million in 2019 to settle an EEOC class race-discrimination lawsuit that alleged disparate impact from its criminal background check practices.

A separate employment suit filed September 29, 2023, in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee remains active as well. Plaintiffs Alexis Flint and Jamie Wood brought a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Civil Action No. 3:23-cv-01023, alleging systemic failures to accommodate nursing employees and asserting Dollar General Corporation operates a centralized policy-making system from its Goodlettsville, Tennessee headquarters. Counsel listed in that complaint includes Siri & Glimstad LLP with lead counsel R. Scott Pietrowski and an office at 745 Fifth Avenue, Suite 500, New York, New York 10151, telephone (212) 532-1091.

The Devault state-court complaint is distinct from the EEOC enforcement action in Muskogee and from the Flint and Wood FLSA collective in the Middle District of Tennessee: the filings name different plaintiffs, different courts, and, in the EEOC matter, a different corporate defendant, Dolgencorp LLC. Whether Devault’s allegations overlap factually with the EEOC’s claims will be revealed once the Montgomery County Chancery Court docket is examined for the full complaint and any counsel filings.